Experience is a hard teacher because SHE gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

Consistencyrequires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

Almost all four faults are more pardonable than the methods we think up to hide them

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stoppingat third base adds no more to the score than striking out.

Step after step the ladder is ascended

Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

When our hearts are empty, we collect things.

WheneverI hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Younever really understand a person until you consider things from his point ofview.

When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in theservice of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I amafraid.